Beating out search giant, Google, Microsoft has purchased a 1.6 percent stake in Facebook for a total of $240 million. According to a story on chron.com, Microsoft plans to sell ads internet ads for Facebook as the popular social networking platform expands into global markets.
It was a good move on Microsoft’s part, even if Facebook’s […]

Viacom has finally taken steps to make 13,000 clips of their hit political comedy, “The Daily Show,” available online. But don’t be mistaken, none of these will be on YouTube. You can now watch John Stewart dish out his insightful brand of satirical political comedy right on TheDailyShow.com. You can even embed the videos there […]

Leave it to the English. In spite of all the fad diets that give millions of Americans a small shade of hope one grande-nonfat-machiato-no-whip at a time, U.K. scientists have managed to prove that most people are dead wrong about why everyone is getting so fat. We can’t just point the finger at excess snacking, […]

The Center for Environmental Health in California is threatening to sue Apple over an apparenly high level of toxic chemicals used in its iPhone. Particularly after the technology giant announced its commitment to a greener Apple the people over at Green Peace were quite disturbed when their UK based laboratories confirmed the presence of brominated […]

Growing up in Connecticut I was always a bit put off by the droves of city fold that would invariably begin flocking to my favorite outdoors spots when the leaves began to turn. They’d come in with their argyle sweaters, day-old Merrell shoes and generally perplexed demeanor. Cameras would snap, […]